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Sex discrimination in parasitoid wasps

osomes can easily cross species boundaries and might therefore be useful for the control of insect pests, such as the Argentine ant. The introduction of these chromosomes would lead to increasingly less females developing. And without females such insect populations quickly perish.


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Contact: Dr Joke J.F.A. van Vugt
joke.vanvugt@wur.nl
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Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
30-May-2005


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